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Friday, April 12, 2013

How to remove safesearch.net from your browser?

Is your browser redirecting you through safesearch.net? Then you have a certain type of program on your computer belonging to the family of browser redirecting applications (so-called browser hijackers). They’re becoming more and more popular by certain software developers these days. It is worth saying that some browser hijackers to enter computers through user’s direct participation. Yet the majority of them infiltrate the PC without user’s permission or approval for such actions. The same thing might occur with safesearch.net. So, in some cases its installation might be legal, yet often users don’t remember any case when they installed it. So, obviously, in this case this browser hijacker is a potentially unwanted application indeed.

Safesearch.net browser hijacker may attack any computer, in fact, as well any browser you have installed on it. This relates to Google Chrome, Opera, Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer, of course. If this Trojan is present on your computer this actually means that all your search queries will be redirected via safesearch.net as the start page of your browser (instead of the browser’s default blank page).

Millions of users worldwide find the presence of safesearch.net on their browser annoying. This thing promises users to improve their search results and to optimize them tremendously. Yet, these are simply the words not supported by real actions. In reality, speaking of safesearch.net, we can see a lot of useless entries in the search results on the page that has been redirected as mentioned above. Often these search results don’t even match user’s expectations.

The problem with safesearch.net is that users can’t remove it easily. They canfi nd the uninstaller of this program in the Control Panel of their computer. Still, even after removing it through the Control Panel the redirect issue still persists. They also can find it in the list of add-ons of their browser (whatever one they have). But even after deleting this add-on the browser still redirects them via safesearch.net. What should they do in this case? How to remove safesearch.net off the computer? You may follow our simple and clear browser redirection removal guidelines in the article below.

Detailed manual removal instructions:

How to uninstall SafeSearch toolbar?

Click on Start -> Control Panel

Double click on "Programs and Features" or "Add/Remove Programs" - depending on your operating system